Vinka Varna is a feral Foley orchestra that extols immediacy, God, and fertility by demanding its members inflate their egos in order to inseminate one another’s egos in order to birth a colossal ego in order to copulate with the audience ego in order to praise the divine by undulating to a live soundtrack created for subconscious-revealing visual projections. This evening’s presentation features animation and film by Camilla Ha (Magic is Küntmaster, Malingering Uvula) and Christopher Steele Nicholson (Oh Minnows)–performing with Patrick Hambrecht (Flaming Fire), artist Zebadiah Keneally (Hamburger Vampire) and poet Aaron Fagan (Garage/ Salt Modern Poets).

Brutal Brain was a performance piece I donated to the annual Triangle Arts Association Benefit, Feb 2013.
Brutal Brain, Performance
Description:
We all have memories that haunt us, moments in time we wish we could have said or done something differently. Artist Camilla Ha invites anyone who would like a do-over to participate in this joint performance. Whether it’s an unrealized act or an attempt to reclaim personal power, Ha will do her best to dress and behave like the person (or object) that haunts your thoughts. Together, the scenario will be recreated, but this time with a more desirable outcome. The idea is to provide a “memory corrective” that allows the subject/ performer to create a new memory by changing an old one.

The debut of my new performance/ animation project, VINKA VARNA.
Thanks to: friends at KDC for being the best at everything, all the musicians who performed that night, VINKA VARNA dancers Julia Gilman and Yuchen Lin. Special thanks to Peyman Faratin and Andreas Witzel for making sure the night was a well oiled machine.

My old solo performance/ music project, MAGIC IS KüNTMASTER, was resurrected to open for VON-first black metal band of North America! Big thanks to Adam Shore and lovely MIK performers Anna Barie and Siobhan Kennedy.